Do this TODAY to get Republicans in your town to wake up

Liberty Belle

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Fri Jan-07-05 10:13 AM
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Do this TODAY to get Republicans in your town to wake up

I tried this and it worked like a charm.

Bring a newspaper or online publication with you to public places. Make comments like, "Wow, isn't that something? Did you hear about how the Democrats challenged the Ohio electors?" (Chances are they didn't). Then tell them about the C-Span hearings you watched yesterday, and inform them about the rampant voting fraud, crooked voting machines, etc, and how the Republicans dismissed it all as a wild conspiracy theory.

I tried this this morning at the skating rink. By the time I was done, I had two Republicans hopping mad at their Representative and at the media for not telling them what's been happening. I gave them links to the Conyers report and the Congress.gov site to contact their own Representatives. I urged them to say that they are Republicans who voted for him, but they are outraged by this and want REAL voting reform.

The points I raised were:
1. 10 hour lines in Ohio in minority neighborhoods, while rich white neighborhoods had no lines (while extra voting machines sat unused in warehouses)
2. Bush re-election co-chair is the Secretary of State in Ohio
3. Voting machine companies are owned by GOP donors and have high-level executives convicted of bribing public officials
4. Some machines were pre-programmed to register default votes for Bush. If a voter didn't vote for president at all, it counted as a vote for Bush. If they voted for Kerry, it became a "spoiled" ballot that was tossed out. Other machines switched votes from Bush to Kerry on review screens, but I hadn't heard of any instances of switches the other way.
5. The last Ohio county to be counted locked out the media and public from witnessing the count, claiming a terrorist threat had been issued. The FBI says that was a lie.
6. A Florida programmer testified under oath to Senate Judiciary Committee members that he was asked by Republican Congressman Sweeney to create vote-rigging software.
7. When a former Congressman tried to deliver a complaint of voting fraud to Ohio's partisan Secretary of State, he was arrested for trespassing.
8. Congressional Democrats held hearings in Ohio and took testimony from numerous voters, programmers, and other experts documenting fraud, voter suppression, etc. Many courageous Democrats spoke up about this in the challenge yesterday (which wasn't aimed at overturning the election, merely highlighting these problems and calling for reforms to protect voters), but not one single Republican saw anything wrong with what happened in this election.

Try it today--over and over. Ask every Republican you win over to share this information with at least 2 or 3 other people, especially Republicans.

Heck, you can read that same newspaper article for the next several days--then try the news magazines later, if they run stories. We have the power to win this fight--if we can get Republican voters to flood their members' offices and demand electoral reforms, too!

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